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Article #2017Re: Correlation Lengths of Language Changes
From: Hubey
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:59
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:59
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The idea is that for longer time spans, there are other factors to consider. The Eskimos and North American Indians did not turn blond and blue eyed in > 10,000 years, so that something of a much large scale is happening. The point was in indicating that time-scaling and distance-scaling have to be correctly taken into account. We don't have linguistic histories dating back to 10,000 years ago. Inchorence is also in the mind of the beholder. It will be all clear once you read the whole thing. -- mark hubey@amiga.montclair.edu hubey@apollo.montclair.edu hubey@pilot.njin.net ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!hubey From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Correlation Lengths of Language Changes Message-ID: <Jan.21.21.59.51.1993.902@pilot.njin.net> Date: 22 Jan 93 02:59:51 GMT References: <Jan.18.22.30.55.1993.10130@pilot.njin.net> <1ji1bdINNdd8@pith.uoregon.edu> <Jan.20.02.07.28.1993.4407@pilot.njin.net> <1jkcv3INN9i2@pith.uoregon.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19